The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
Got a plot in mind?
MRO plots are player-created the Mods facilitate and organize the big ones, but we get the ideas from you. Do you have a plot in mind, and want to know whether it needs Mod approval? Check out our plot guidelines.
Jupiter smiled lightly, the woman framed in the door in the light, red and silver sundress was surely worth the wait. ‘Hello.’ Was his wistful reply. She had that effect on him, she could calm the beast within. The way she stood, the way her curves met the solid lines of the frame, simply spectacular.
He was absorbed with the way she looked taking in every bit of her as if his eyes had been thirsty and she was the cold drink of water he’d been searching for. Their eyes met and there was something there that he wasn’t sure he recognized or cared to, it was pain, sadness, perhaps confusion? He was at a loss, He was looking forward to a nice quiet night.
The kitchen however told a different tale, the smell rolling out was enough to make him hope, that the look in her eyes was something he could help her work through. And then she dropped the five worst words you want to hear from a women. ‘I need to talk to you.’ It was even worse than we need to talk, because in this version you didn’t get much of a say.
He sat at the table looking at her expression carefully controlled, this wasn’t a problem he would be able to smash and walk away from, though someone was likely to feel the wraith of whatever he was about to be talked to about. He listened carefully as she spoke. His thumbnail stabbing the palm of his hand to allow him to remain composed as he did so. Almost, the key word was almost in that first sentence. The initial pain and anger was quickly soothed by so many other truths he needed to hear.
Then she smacked the table and started to pace he watched her with a modicum of surprise on his face. Jupiter looked down at the table hurt more by the fact she thought he could hate her then the temptation she felt guilty about.
“You didn’t Kiss him, you felt bad about it, you are telling me the truth, and you love me. How could I be mad about that?” he shook his head as he looked up at her. “I could never hate you though, if you thought you could be happier with someone else, then that is what you feel, tell me and I wouldn’t stand in the way. But as it stands…that’s not how you feel.” He stood up, out of his chair and closed the distance between them. I’m not good at this, and that first night I was overwhelmed to have you back, since then there hasn’t been much of a chance to establish anything else. I can’t say I would be happy about the kiss, but if it got you to realize all of this then I can’t even bring myself to be to upset about it.”
He looked into her caramel eyes and felt a little overwhelmed. “ you really want to grow old with me? Good, I love you too Xavia.” He leaned down and planted a kiss on her lips, a smile on his own. She was so wound up and fiery, it was a relief to find the talk wasn’t always a harbinger of doom.
Slightly manic laughter was the very best kind. Mercury closed the red woman in a hug and spun them in a circle, they were reunited! Even if they had just met, he was sure they had been estranged at some point. He set her down and only backed away a little. “It is settled then Jezebel, Let’s Celebrate! Afterwards I can show you the sanctuary and introduce you to Abyss and Jupiter and Saturn and Mars and Venus, Pluto doesn’t live with us anymore, he’s confused about stuff, but that’s ok, I’ll introduce you to Syn and Isabel and everyone else we can find at the Sanct. Oh, Watch out for Venus, I think he will think of you in a different way than a sister. He tends to make googley eyes at pretty girls.”
He grinned at Jezebel and let his eyes wander the area. “But, what should we do?” He looked around the area, there were restaurants, Café’s, Bars, nightclubs, Gyms, street performers, theatres or heck, traffic was always fun to play in.
That’s when it caught his eye protestors outside of a medical clinic a few blocks down with signs proclaiming, such things as ‘Go home freak’, ‘Mutant free is the way to be!’ and ‘Xgene means Unclean’. Mercury tilted his head. “Or we could go have a…friendly debate.” The crook in his smile and the anger in his eyes said that he intended anything but friendship. He wondered how long they would chant once they had arrived.
He glanced in the window and sneered at the frazzled blonde that had dropped her electronics., She had a white shirt with a red X on it, over that there was a black circle with a slash through it. It matched the shirts of the people down the road at a medical clinic.
Mercury nodded at the woman and motioned to Jezebel. “ Bring her?” If they were smart they would disperse the moment they saw them coming. Humans were rarely smart.
As he marched toward the clinic he shook his head, he had read about recent protests calling for segregation, not between different colors of human, but of Homo superior and homo inferior. Which was fine with him, they could all leave.
Mercury wasn’t happy with Markus, and he wasn’t happy with Isabel, He wasn’t sure who to be more made at, a man who knew strategy well enough to know that he was going to need whatever weapon he had available. He was fighting someone who he found to be scary at times. Sure he could probably win a fight against her if he was determined, but he had no delusions that he would come out of it unscathed. Most importantly however he had no desire to cause her the slightest bit of pain, nor to the old man.
Gramps had questions, but before he could answer, Markus was being attacked Bone spikes entered his arm and he hoped to get him out of here while he still had the chance to learn from those wounds. His tail secured Ceaser and tossed him out of the hole he entered through moments ago, the old man’s body hitting the first of his grunts with a thud.
“I know, but you are ruining my grandpa.” she knew good and well it wasn’t his granpa.Mercury smiled at her. Missing that pout on her face, she could be worse than him about being childish at times. S “I miss you Isabel, if you guys would have made an exception to your rule, then we could be destroying them right now. Your goods have already left so we are just hurting each other to hurt each other. Lets call it a day? Seriously though, if you would just leave next time we wouldn’t have to do all this.”
Jupiter wasn't sure if he had done something wrong, But Xavia hadn't really been responding to him lately, He had her full attention for at least a few days after they made contact but then she started being 'busy' all the time. sure she had to work, but he was starting to wonder if he had done something to offend her. He just wished she would say something instead, if she didn't want him around anymore, he could take it, He just wanted her happy, and if he couldn't do that well. then he wasn't the man for the job.
He parked his Motorcycle in the drive way, and got off his bike walking to the door, He was just as ecstatic as he was the first time he arrived, but this time a bit more reluctant in the fact that he wasn't sure why she had been avoiding him. He should have gotten Venus's advice. on the matter. He'd know what was going on and what to do about it. but then...he'd own him a favor and might never know if She would have liked him only for him and not the fact that he could call upon a charismatic brother for advice.
Mercury held out his arm and compared the skin tone next to hers. It was a pretty solid match. He looked at her and nodded. He gently held her arms as he took a peek at her back side. And popped back around her to face her. “I am like you, and you are like me, but You don’t have a tail?” his tail wiggled above his shoulder to confirm that she knew what a tail was and that his eyes were not playing tricks on him, leaving it up to her whether she had a tail or not..
‘Still, I think you must be related to me and my brothers.” He put five fingers on one hand and one on the other up. “There are Six more. Pluto, Mars, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Abyss.” He nodded. “ They all look exactly like me though. “And well You’ve definitely got sister parts.” Not finding it the least odd that he might be pointing out the obvious.” He tilted his head. “ Still,” his hand went to one of her arms again. “ You look more like us than our other sisters.’ He nodded. “I think you are my sister. Are you My sister?” Hmmm. He tilted his head. Raising an eyebrow at the woman who shrieked and fled. Looking around the area to see if there was something scary about, He didn’t see it. Oh well. It was unimportant.
“If you aren’t, do you want to be?”He was pretty sure that’s how the order worked, You went out and found a mutant that you liked and you brought them home and then you were family.
Jupiter shook his head softly. “you don’t need to worry about waking me. You should have. It was rude for me to fall asleep in the first place.”
He put his feet onto the floor and prepared to go to her, when she came to him. “You will be better than fine and it makes me happy to know that I was there for you in spite it all at least somehow bringing a bit of comfort..” His hand gently held hers.
He was cautious with her, He still wasn’t sure that he shouldn’t be chasing the man responsible down for this. He would have trouble resisting, having him found and dealing with him.
But there were more important things than revenge, at least at the moment. He wrapped his arms around her and drew her near. They could have the rest of their conversation from there, couldn’t they? Surely the safety of his arms might give her some relief, They could whisper the day away and when she was ready to sleep he would watch over her.
Venus offered his arm to the young woman, he would be glad to escort her into the lush cabin. “ I am glad you agree. It is truly a pleasure to simply relax and not worry about what is expected of you. I think that while being worshiped certainly has its advantages, it can be very limiting, ever since I found myself within this flesh. I have been reluctant to simply sit and have my fingers kissed, I want to be free to roam the world and affect change in it with my hands and, lips.’ He raised one of her many hands and kissed it gently.” He sighed. “With the majority of my being spread throughout the world I doubt there is little to worry about as far as love and desire are concerned, the mortal heart is made for the pair.”
AS they got to the porch he unlocked the cabin and it opened to a large living room that met the floor of the kitchen with a breakfast bar in between. A large fireplace was ready to be light with a uniform stack of logs waiting to fill the room with warmth and the lovely scent.A loft bedroom opened to the vault ceiling and a complete wall of the house was glass overlooking a gloriousview.
"Make yourself comfortable my dear." He strolled to the car and got a pair of bags from the vehicle. He changed his cell phone to silent, and grinned at the already piling up messages from Adarsha. He texted a reply quickly -We are safe, I will have her back as soon as she wishes it to be so.-
(And anyone else with a stake in the future of the order or sanctuary)
Hello Crime lords of New York, As we are about to enter into a new chapter in the Order’s book, I’m hoping to get all of us communicating ooc, so that hopefully we can work more fluidly (or at all) as a faction IC.
So, if you would be so kind, I’m interested in hearing your ideas about where you want to see the faction go?
We will be moving to a council type leadership, and further delving into a mafia style syndicate. We are already pushing drugs after all and I don't think any of want to be common gang bangers.
but are there other angles you'd like to see played out?
Abyss for instance couldn't care less about finances, but would like to see the Mutant race furthered through our efforts.
Any chance Roach and I could get pulled into the "order in everything"? I would certainly be interested. We might have to double check with Roachie to get him to join,(if you guys would welcome the company), but it'd be nice to get consolidated.
I think that if enough of the order members would like to scrap it out with each other, then we can certainly facilitate it. Though , perhaps under a bit more of a controlled atmosphere? the order has a danger room after all and if we need to battle royale it out, to settle the pecking order we certainly can.
After the leadership issues are resolved (for the most part) then if needed we can break into cliques. and work angles and bicker as we work in a common direction or work against each other in a common direction. so, it looks like some of the steps in the house divided might have to be augmented as we get the leadership handled. but the idea is still viable to those that are interested.
We’ve only heard from Lenna, Syn, Abyss, Roach, Seyta, Grim & Aurion, I’m going to see if we can’t get more members to sound off on whether they would want to participate in the house divided, or if there is less division in the house than anticipated. We still haven’t heard from more than half of our current members.
I’m going to start another thread and see if we can’t shake things up.
(I’ll post Jupiter & Venus when ever their portions move forward. =P)
After a brief and muffled conversation Saturn realized that Miles wasn’t there and he would have to go check the bigots farm closer to town. The kid did good today, at least his dog certainly did. He deserved a pat on the back, or at least to have someone check on him to make sure the amazons didn’t get him. What a way to go. Death by woman, he had a feeling that it wouldn’t be as pleasant as it sounded. At least not with the way that particular group carried themselves, he heard the talks around town, but really? There was a reason that didn’t have boys around, something bad happened and he had a feeling that those women wouldn’t take to kindly to any man they got their hands on.
He started to walk that way and look into what the young man had gotten himself into. He found himself on the porch of an annoying old couple. It seemed like no one was home, probably still in hiding. He knocked several times and nothing. But he didn’t see the dogs around either…if worst came to worst he could always go looking for them at the bone fort. For now though he’d just check the other residences, see if anyone had seen the boy recently. He had to be around here somewhere.
------------------------~~~~~~------------------------- Abyss still sat back and observed, at this point things seemed to be winding down, Isabel and Markus were about to get the wrong side of Mercury he though, He hoped he didn’t hurt either of them, he doubted Merc would forgive himself for harming either. He saw in the way his Jaw set when he looked back at the sparing pair. He was glad this mess was almost adjourned, though from the looks of it Gina and Allison were still going to play for keeps. would he have to intervene there? if so how could he explain it. He didn't have the convenient excuse of being whimsically eccentric like Mercury did. ------------------------~~~~~~------------------------- Mercury turned his attention back to Markus and Isabel and things had changed vastly from where he saw them last. He heard Isabel’s frustration and stopped standing still. Mercury marched toward the pair. flexing his fingers. He hated this! It was so stupid! They finally had the world to themselves with hardly any pesky humans around and still! Still they fought each other.
Mercury stalked to the bone cage and slipped his fingers in between the bones and pushed them outward , He didn’t intentionally break any but if they did snap, he knew Isabel well enough to know she could always just whip up another batch. He stepped into the small ring, shooting them both a stern look. Perhaps that would be enough. if no, he wouldn't bother with words.
Mercury was a bit frustrated this was the tenth ipod that he had crushed; they had humored him thus far about skirting the return policy. He attributed it to good service, they however put it under the, loss of an ipod was better than dying in a red rampage. They even loaded up all of his songs for him again, he turned down a new pair ear buds though, and those were still working perfectly fine.
He grinned at the little white rectangle as the storage available display dwindled. He snatched the device from the apple employee’s hand. And turned to leave without any more to do. his Jaw then dropped as he looked out the store window. He slide the white rectangle into his pocket and bounded out of the store. A large toothy grin on his face.
“Hello!†He said too loudly and too closely to the woman in front of him. his head tilted slightly up, that was new. “My name is Mercury, What’s yours?†He was a big red puppy that had found a littermate his tail wooshed about behind him excitedly. He didn’t recognize her, but he knew an Abyssi when he saw one. She dressed like Syn, but no, Syn wasn’t taller than him and she wasn’t such a perfect shade of Red either. No, this wasn’t Syn. He was almost absolutely positive, probably.
ooc: I think that more leaders is a great idea just because it gives us the opportunity to have more people propelling the Order forward and give the faction more to do.
As far as the set up of splitting power, I could see that coming about a couple ways, Lenna could request the assistance of the others in running the show, realizing it might be a little smoother of a transition for her take over, Im not sure that the Abyssi would accept Lenna at face value for a leader by simply being told they were in charge now. or Lori could have set it up/suggested it on the way out? Or Lenna could announce her leadership and the others go not happening.
the most important thing is for it to start moving, I don't care what direction or how, but at the moment it feels more like a bunch of random criminals living at the sanctuary opposed to a faction. /ooc.
I have an amusing idea for the first major encounter between Lenna and the AByssi.(at least it amuses me.)
(the)Abyss(i) isn't very power hungry, he does however have a mutant supremacy agenda he would love to see the order pursue. as far as in fighting goes he would be annoyed that others were bickering. I like and support the idea ooc, IC however Abyss would oppose the heck out of such developments. a house devided is a house conquered after all.
as for Lori leaving the order and retaining the faust pharm, I am sure as the ceo she could have done so, and perhaps even that is part of the peaceful trade off to Lenna, what does she need another set of labs for anyhow. That said perhaps the Order can still retain some stock in FP?
“I suppose that is fair. I simply assumed.” He couldn’t help but smirk slightly at the thought of Calley throwing some eyeliner on and black nail polish. It might suit him he supposed bring out those blue eyes…the hell? Crap in a handbag, he was drunk.
“Mmm, at least January. Or that is when patterns started popping up rather. So, maybe sooner. We’ve been tracking movements and lost kids with a resident, She is good at tracking.
Jupiter leaned in his char and nearly fell out of it and might have to if his tail hadn’t acted as a balance for him, pressing up from the floor. “I don’t see any post cards down here, Calley.” He whipped his head back up and grinned at him. “Oh. I see what you did there.”
A mostly goofy grin slapped on to his face and then wiped itself away as he leaned forward in all seriousness. “ Didn’t you mention a rhino ride?”